School: Robertson (roll number 12276)
- Location:
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Liam Ó Morchadh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 182
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- The churn we have at home is a dash churn.
We gather the milk in crooks, and when it is sour (w) we churn it. When you are churning you put in hot and cold water. You gather the butter of the churn and make it into prints.
- Collector
- Mary Dobson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- We get the milk and we put it into crooks and when it is sour we put it into the churn and churn it it is churned by hand and the churn dash is always moved upwards and downwards and when you are churning you put in hot and cold water
The buttermilk is used in baking and for drinking.
